“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...